i haven't seen Ichi, but i do like Saw. Maybe i DO like all goriness, whether realistic or not. I suppose it's about the context in which the gore appears - if it's in a serious film, it's perhaps less pleasant. But I wouldn't class Saw as a 'serious' (or chin stroking) film, the gore is the main reason you go to see it.

something like psycho ot alien requires directing/editing skill and I think is more enduring because of it.
Even something like alien3 only mostly hints at goryness.
Stuff like Texas chainsaw massacre or saw I cant understand really, why not just head off to an abatoir.

I have always found there to be somethiung vaguely disquieting about zombie flicks.....I dont think its the flicks themselves, its more the way that say Romero gets feted so much, yet when he does the gore it is unrealistic and heavily staged so that you can see eviserations in a highly lit well viewed shot......depite the zombie cowds....it is this enjoyment and elevation of something that is rather unskillful and twdry that I find worrying........not even from the psychotic public aspect, mpore from the point of view of your lack of critical faculties.......at least spomething like Braindead and evil dead ii play it for laughs because the directors know it is ridiculous, so the gore here justs add to the joke.

If anyone else says something about day of the dead being a stinging satirical comment on our consumer society again I shall scream.....Really how exactly?......because he sets it in a shopping mall and the zombies seem comfortable there......OK that is one idea, get over it.
I would like to see a return to the the naive but well intentioned hammer 'horrors'.

Braindead, Evil Dead
I think the Final Destination films are quite good in this regard.

I guess we are talking fairly mainstream films here. There is a lot of much more gory, nasty stuff about (Guinea Pig etc.) but it rarely contributes to a good film and is usually just for its own sake.